MERGE COURSE TOOL The Merge Course Tool is available in eLearning, and faculty can now use the tool to merge S18 courses. (Any courses that are officially cross-listed in Orion have been automatically merged… More for faculty.) TUTORIAL: How to use the Merge Course Tool EARLY STUDENT ACCESS TO S18 COURSES IN ELEARNING Courses will automatically become available to students the morning of the first day of the semester (January 8). If you would like your students to access your course before the first day of class, please complete the eLearning Early Course Access Form.

The Course Reserves link in Canvas automatically creates a course in Ares after the activation. If the students has a previous course and have listings in Ares then that need to be transfered to a new course shell, or if you experience any other problems, contact the Course Reserves Unit.

Gamified socialized learning offers the dialogue of social media platforms with the engagement and real-life rewards of a game. LMS user research done by Capterra shows that gamification is the fourth most desired eLearning feature. MORE

The Open University in Britain[32] and the University of British Columbia (where Web CT, now incorporated into Blackboard Inc., was first developed) began a revolution of using the Internet to deliver learning,[35] making heavy use of web-based training, online distance learning and online discussion between students.[36] Practitioners such as Harasim (1995)[37] put heavy emphasis on the use of learning networks.

Summer 2018 Courses – Summer courses are now available to instructors in eLearning. Students will be loaded one month prior to the semester start. Summer courses, however, will not become visible to students until the first day of class (May 21st). REMINDER: Adding Users to Your eLearning Course…

Simply creating a course and putting a price on it is never enough for starting an online business selling courses. You need visibility and to convince anyone who comes across your site that your course can help them. There is no hard science to this process. Marketing and selling is a bit of an art, but that isn’t a bad thing. It actually means that you have a lot of leeway in how you go about building an audience for your offerings. MORE

If you have an online quiz in which you want to add a bonus question, and the bonus question is one that will be graded by canvas (i.e. multiple choice, fill in the blank, True/False, etc.), create the question and set it to the number of bonus points you want the student to have if they answer it correctly. Once all students have taken the quiz, edit the quiz and make that bonus question worth 0 points. The point value awarded to the student will not change, only the total point value of the quiz itself will change (decreased by the number of bonus points you set the question for).

If you have Adobe PDF/CutePdf/OneNote/etc. as a printer option, select it. This will allow you to save the page/file as a PDF and print. The page should print correctly sent to a physical printer however you may need to your printer settings. Depending on the browser you are using these options may vary.

In addition, when correcting quiz questions or answers for regrade, you need to allow at least 10 minutes before making any additional changes to other quiz questions or answers. Otherwise, the regrading process is interrupted and you will need to manually regrade the quiz question/answers instead.

Around 10:50 pm CST last night (July 20), we received a report from Turnitin in regards to the program being temporarily down. During that time, users were not able to access the program and Turnitin were… More looking into resolving the issue. Turnitin has reported that the issue was resolved, and service was restored last night, between 11:00 PM and 12:00 AM CST. [ 31 more words. ]